Database Administrator

Job summary

Administer, maintain, secure, and optimize enterprise relational databases and backup platforms, including monitoring jobs, troubleshooting failures, and validating restores. Support disaster recovery, audit documentation, operational automation, and incident, problem, and change management.

Job details

Senior Database Administrator & Backup Consultant Location: Remote Contract Length: 3 months We are looking for a Senior Database Administrator & Backup Consultant to provide senior-level operational support for enterprise database, backup, and recovery environments. This is a hands-on role focused on maintaining the availability, performance, security, integrity, and recoverability of critical enterprise systems. What You’ll Be Doing Administer, monitor, maintain, patch, upgrade, and optimize enterprise relational database environments. Perform database performance tuning and capacity planning. Administer enterprise backup and recovery platforms. Monitor backup jobs, retention policies, and recovery processes. Troubleshoot backup/database failures and perform root-cause analysis. Perform and document restore testing and recovery validation. Support disaster recovery activities and exercises. Maintain documentation and evidence for audit, compliance, and recovery requirements. Work closely with application teams, infrastructure teams, and vendors. Use scripting, automation, and monitoring tools to improve operational efficiency. Participate in incident, problem, and change management activities. Participate in on-call support as required. What We’re Looking For Senior-level experience administering enterprise relational databases. Strong hands-on experience with enterprise backup and recovery platforms. Experience with database installation, configuration, maintenance, patching, upgrades, security, performance tuning, and capacity planning. Strong knowledge of backup scheduling, retention, restore operations, disaster recovery testing, and recoverability validation. Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills. Experience with operating system administration, scripting, automation, and monitoring. Strong incident, change, and problem management practices. Nice to Have Experience within financial services, pensions, or another highly regulated environment. Experience producing backup/restore evidence for audits, compliance, or cyber-insurance requirements. Database or data protection modernization experience. Experience with platform upgrades and disaster recovery exercises. Relevant database, backup/recovery, cloud, or IT service management certifications. This is a great opportunity for an experienced DBA who is equally strong in database administration and enterprise backup/recovery and can step into a critical environment with minimal ramp-up time.

What you’ll do

Administer, maintain, secure, and optimize enterprise relational databases and backup platforms, including monitoring jobs, troubleshooting failures, and validating restores. Support disaster recovery, audit documentation, operational automation, and incident, problem, and change management.

Requirements

Requires senior-level experience administering enterprise relational databases and hands-on expertise with enterprise backup and recovery platforms. Candidates should have experience with database maintenance and performance, recovery and disaster recovery testing, operating systems, scripting, monitoring, and operational management practices.

Listed skills

• Change Management · Preferred
• analysis · Preferred
• Retention · Preferred
• Upgrades · Preferred
• Teams · Preferred
• Compliance · Preferred
• management · Preferred
• Documentation · Preferred
• Troubleshooting · Preferred
• maintenance · Preferred
• Audit · Preferred
• Consultant · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Enterprise Database Administration
• Database Performance Tuning
• Capacity Planning
• Backup And Recovery
• Database Installation And Configuration
• Database Patching And Upgrades
• Database Security
• Backup Scheduling And Retention
• Restore Testing And Recovery Validation
• Disaster Recovery
• Troubleshooting And Root-Cause Analysis
• Operating System Administration
• Scripting And Automation
• Monitoring
• Incident, Problem, And Change Management

Job areas

• Technology
• Data & Analytics
• Consulting

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